Deng Yanda was a military officer in the Chinese Nationalist Party.
14 Facts About Deng Yanda
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Deng Yanda broke with party leaders in 1927, denouncing them as traitors to the party's original principles and in 1930 attempted to form a new party, which he called the Provisional Action Committee of the Chinese Nationalist Party, which others have called the Third Party.
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Today, Deng is recognized as a revolutionary martyr by the People's Republic of China.
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Deng Yanda was educated in military schools in Guangdong and Wuhan, graduating from Baoding Military Academy in 1919.
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Deng Yanda was recruited to the Guangdong Army in 1920 and fought under the Nationalist officer Deng Yanda Keng.
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When Sun Yat-sen announced his policy of alliance with the Soviet Union in 1923, Deng Yanda strongly supported it and was appointed to the preparatory committee for the Whampoa Military Academy which the Russians helped the Chinese Nationalists build.
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Deng Yanda was an important commander in the Northern Expedition which the Nationalists launched to unify China.
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When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Chinese Communist Party and Russia, Deng Yanda denounced Chiang and left China for Russia and Europe, where he lived from 1927 to 1930.
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On his return to China, Deng Yanda formed a new party, which he called the Provisional Action Committee of the Chinese Nationalist Party or Third Party.
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Deng Yanda vigorously attacked Chiang Kai-shek as a dictator, angering the Nationalist government in Nanjing.
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Deng Yanda further angered them when he supported an anti-Chiang secessionist movement in Guangzhou in 1931.
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Deng Yanda was arrested in Shanghai's International Settlement on 17 August 1931, and extradited to Nanjing, where he was executed on 29 November 1931.
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Deng Yanda's tomb is located near Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum on Zhongshan Mountain near Nanjing.
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Deng Yanda's views were socialist but after he left the Nationalists, he did not align with other parties, insisting that China's revolution should not be reined in to fit the needs of Russia or the Comintern.